Jonathan Masters

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Deputy Editor, Digital Editorial, Council on Foreign Relations

Proposal Title: The Robot Revolution: Will Japan Stay Ahead of the Rest?

Nate Berg

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Freelance Journalist

Proposal Title: Urbanization, Technology and the Evolution of Japanese Housing

Tyler Zoanni

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, New York University

Proposal Title: In the Image of God?: Disability and Christianity in Uganda

Grace Zhou

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Stanford University

Proposal Title: Secrets of the Trade: Intimate Transactions and Distributive Markets in Southern Kyrgyzstan

Xiaoshun Zeng

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Washington

Proposal Title: Diagnosing Minorities: Public Health and Nation-State Building in the Ethnic Minority Regions of China, 1949-1965

Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Spanish & Portuguese, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: Economy, Empire and Alienation in Peruvian Satire, 1598-1797

Heather Wurtz

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Traumatic Injury and Migration in the Mexico Borderlands

Daniel Williford

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Michigan

Proposal Title: Concrete Futures: Technologies and Ecologies of Urban Crisis in Colonial and Post-Colonial Morocco

Joost Van Eynde

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Michigan

Proposal Title: The Afterlives of the Corpse in the Age of Reform

Nishita Trisal

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of Michigan

Proposal Title: Finance in Uncertain Times: Debt and Sovereignty in Kashmir

Rachel Thompson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Harvard University

Proposal Title: Jakarta, Sinking City: Ecologies of Belonging in a Flood-Prone Metropolis

David Thompson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: "Re-Socialize to Conquer the Future": Incarceration and Reform in Rio de Janeiro

Cihan Tekay

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, City University of New York (CUNY) / Graduate Center

Proposal Title: Electrifying the Nation-State: Generating Citizens in Turkey's Early Republican Era (1923-1950)

Christopher Szabla

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Cornell University

Proposal Title: Negotiating Settlement: Technocratic Governance and Global Migration, 1919-1951

Rory Sykes

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History/Architecture, Northwestern University

Proposal Title: "We Are All Fedayeen": Palestinian National Identity and the Image Archive, 1967-1982

Emily Springer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology, University of Minnesota / Twin Cities

Proposal Title: The Production of Knowledge through Quantification: The Case of ‘Women’s Empowerment’ Measurement in Transnational Evaluation Systems

James Skelton

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

Proposal Title: Iraqis' Cancer Itineraries: Transnational Negotiations of Life and Death

Rachel Silver

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology/Educational Policy Studies (Joint PhD), University of Wisconsin / Madison

Proposal Title: Mother, Daughter, Schoolgirl: Studying Student Pregnancy and Readmission Policy in Malawi’s Era of Education for All

Seda Saluk

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of Massachusetts / Amherst

Proposal Title: Monitored Reproduction in the Age of Pronatalism: Ethics, Politics, and Informatics in Turkey

Leslie Sabiston

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Young Indigenous Men and Gangs: Landscapes of Violence and Fear in and between Winnipeg and Norway House Cree Nation

Alix Riviere

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Tulane University

Proposal Title: Bittersweet Childhoods: Slave Youth on Nineteenth-Century Sugar Plantations in Martinique and Louisiana

Elizabeth Reynolds

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Monasteries, Merchants, and Transnational Networks: Tibet and the Global Economy 1905 to 1959

Mark Reeves

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill

Proposal Title: Lost Horizons: Anticolonial Internationalism, 1930-1970

Nana Quarshie

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Interdepartmental Program in Anthropology & History, University of Michigan

Proposal Title: On ‘Foreign Lunatics:’ Diversity, Labor Migration, and Psychiatry in West Africa, 1930-Present

Alyssa Paredes

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Yale University

Proposal Title: Altering Asia's Banana Republic? The Making of an "Alternative" Supply Chain along the Pacific Rim